Degree of interest estimating device and degree of interest estimating method

a degree of interest and estimating device technology, applied in broadcast information monitoring, analogue secracy/subscription systems, television systems, etc., can solve the problems of getting more and more difficult to win the hears and minds of users with conventional and uniform methods for presenting information, and it is difficult for the user himself or herself to select his or her favorite content items. to achieve accurate estimation of the degree of interest of a viewer
US20130091515A1Active Publication Date: 2013-04-11PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORP OF AMERICA
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PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORP OF AMERICA
Publication Date
2013-04-11

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Abstract

An interest degree estimating device, which estimates a degree of interest of a user in a video displayed on a screen, includes: an eye gaze detecting unit for detecting an eye gaze direction of the user; a saliency information obtaining unit for obtaining saliency information on a saliency area having salient attractiveness in the video; and a user response analyzing unit for calculating a correlation between the saliency area specified from the obtained saliency information and the detected eye gaze direction, and estimate the degree of interest of the user in the video, the degree of interest being higher as the calculated correlation is higher.
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TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present invention relates to a degree of interest estimating device and a degree of interest estimating method for estimating a degree of interest of a viewer (hereinafter also referred to as “user”) watching a displayed video.BACKGROUND ART

[0002] In this day and age of the information explosion with abundant information, people's interests have become diverse. Consequently, it is getting more and more difficult to win the hears and minds of users with conventional and uniform techniques for presenting information. Thus required today is a technique to present personalized information; that is, casually conveyed information of the users' potential interests.

[0003] For example, the number of channels for a TV as a display device is rapidly increasing along with the digitalization of the recent TV broadcasting. So is the number of content items distributed via the Internet. As a result, a user can select a content item from among a large number of content items....

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